Astronomical Research Spawns Detector Innovation

The need for space-quality instrumentation for the James Webb Space Telescope has resulted in innovative detectors that will benefit many ground-based efforts well before the telescope's launch.

Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor

From the middle of the Pacific, Gerard Luppino has a good view of the future and of the past. Luppino, an astronomy professor at the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Astronomy in Honolulu, has access to the optical and infrared observatories clustered on the 13,800-foot summit of the dormant...Read full article